PixlBit

I've been trying to get an account (using my PixlBit email) for going on 4 years as well. At this point I just don't care any more.

I had no idea things had gone so downhill for Ebert. When I saw this blog post yesterday it really caught me off guard. Sorry to hear that he passed. While I completely disagree with his viewpoint on games, I respected him immensely as a critic.

When I first started writing critically for Nintendo World Report, I spent a lot of time reading his film reviews because he was so adept at explaining why he felt the way he did about something. Of course, as someone who knows very little about film, much of what he talked about went over my head, especially with more artful films, but he could still get the point across regardless of audience.

It's sad that just 2 days after he took his "leave of presence" he passed. I imagine it would've been nice for him to do what he loved in the capacity he wanted. There's something horribly depressing about that part of it to me. It's like the day he decided he had to dial it back and semi-retire, he lost his battle with cancer. What a bummer.

In any event, it seems like he really fought the battle to the very end, so for that I have much respect. His presence will definitely be missed.

Welcome! If it helps you any, there's a way to add whole lists of games (by system) to your collection at a time. All you need to do is create a plain text file, list each title on its own line, and upload the document to the site. From the game collection home page, look for the piece of paper with the plus sign on it. The page it brings you to will make it quick and easy to get a bunch of games added at once. Hope that helps!

I think my ultimate dream for the site has always been to have a highly active community that's constantly being engaged. In order to accomplish that, I'd love to have almost a calendar of sorts that conglomerated all of the events on any given day and presented them to a visitor of the site and allowed them to interact at their leisure.

I'd also love to do a live radio show with callers and the like that focused on games, gaming topics, and nerd culture. I'm a big fan of morning radio shows, so I've always dreamed of replicating that here, based around the stuff we all find most interesting.

Even beyond that, I'd love to better feature the writing that the community does. Rather than living in the blog section alone, I want to promote the best of that content as if it originated from the PixlBit staff. I think it would be amazing (especially if this site was bigger) to be a user and write something and have it "officially" published.

In general, bigger and better community stuff has always been what I wanted for PixlBit, so I've literally been chomping at the bit to get features out there for you guys to continue to improve your experience here. If/when I ever get the opportunity, I intend to make the aforementioned items a reality, along with plenty of other things that I haven't even dreamed of yet.

I don't think we're going to make it. Kain keeps dominating harder and harder. At this point, ED is going limp...

Haha - steal away! Of course, I stole the idea from someone else too, so I don't mind.

Didn't know you were a Dad too - cute kid! My son at 1 was totally adorable, smiling all the time and just doing cute stuff constantly... then somewhere between 1 and 2 the terrible twos kicked in and he started being... a challenge.

Are you guys planning on having more kids or is one enough? Also, cool to hear that Courtney is playing through Bioshock Infinite. Chessa started playing it last night and I watched her go through the first 2 hours of it. Do you guys play through games together typically, or do you each play in isolation?

3eb isn't really a political band, though they have some light commentary in their third album with general Bush disapproval. That Occupy Wall Street song was a one-off, but it was pretty catchy, I thought. Non-Dairy Creamer is another one they did that touches on the topic of gay marriage and the war on terror. But yeah, largely they're not a political band.

Also, no Toxicity!? I started getting into them with the release of that album, before it became a big thing. I still love that album, while Hypnotize and Mezmerize were two I liked but didn't love. Steal This Album! and the self-titled one are also excellent, but I don't think anything stands up to Toxicity.

Yeah, Metacritic evaluates sites over very long periods of time and doesn't readily add people. Last year we were "wait listed," which essentially meant that we passed their tests and would get added after some others were removed.

I was hopeful that we could pretty much take 1up's space now that they're closing up shop. I haven't heard anything back since I last emailed them a month ago. I guess we'll see what happens, but it would definitely open up doors for us that wouldn't be opened otherwise.

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